Part I:
"…although a work of art 'is formed around something missing,' this 'void is its vanishing point, not its essence.' She shows deftly and delicately that the void inside Keats’s urn, Heidegger’s jug, or Wallace Stevens’s jar forms the center around which we tend to organize our worlds."
— Harvard University Press on Persons and Things (April 30, 2008), by Barbara Johnson
Part II:
Part III:
From the date of Barbara Johnson's death:
"Mathematical relationships were
enough to satisfy him, mere formal
relationships which existed at
all times, everywhere, at once."
– Broken Symmetries, 1983
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The X's refer to the pattern on the
cover of a paperback edition
of Nine Stories, by J. D. Salinger.
Salinger died on Wednesday.
"You remember that book he sent me
from Germany? You know–
those German poems."
In Germany, Wednesday was
Holocaust Memorial Day, 2010.